Belvedere Infant School

Children in Reception access the seven areas of learning through a wide range of adult and child led activities. Children are encouraged to use their senses to explore the world around them, learn through their play and develop their speech, language and communication skills in our language rich environment. 

Teachers set up the classrooms with a range of exciting and engaging activities that are practical and multi-sensory. Activities are linked to the half termly topic or the key text for the week. Children have a wide range of resources in the classrooms that they can access freely to support their independent learning activities. Activities are set up to provide children with opportunities to practise their speaking and listening skills and encourage them to practise reading and writing throughout the day. 

This half term we will be learning all about traditional tales. We will be using a range of wonderful multicultural tales from around the world to support our teaching and learning in this topic. Below you will find images of some of the stories that we will be sharing with the children. 

We are very proud of all of our children and families for their hard work, cooperation and participation in their remote learning. Children have been attending live learning sessions with their teachers via Zoom and Google Meet and have uploaded some wonderful work to their Google Classrooms and Class Dojo portfolios. Please have a look at just some of the fantastic work that has been submitted so far. 

Children have been working very hard during their live Phonics sessions and using their sound knowledge to support their reading and writing at home. 

This week, children have been using some of the characters from our story, The Three Little Pigs, to learn about and practise using positional language. 

Teachers arrived at school bright and early this morning to find that an intruder had been in our classrooms!! The intruder has left evidence all over the room and now you need to use your best investigation skills to work out who this intruder could be. 

This week we have been focusing on our speech, language and communication skills. We have been retelling the story in our own words and using art and craft materials to create the characters from the story to support our retelling. We have been thinking about the actions of Goldilocks and discussing whether or not we think she behaved in the right way. 

This week we will be using the story of Little Red Riding Hood to support our learning. 

On Monday morning, we turned up to our English lesson in disguise, just like the Big Bad Wolf disguised himself as Granny. Our friends tried to guess who was behind the disguise and then we used our speaking skills to describe our costumes. 

The children in Reception thought about the family in the story then used their drawing and labelling skills to tell us all about their families. 

This week, children in Reception revisited addition using pictures and concrete objects.

Children in Reception love their live Phonics lessons. I think we may have a few future teachers in the making! 

This week, the staff and children and Belvedere Infant School took part in some activities for Children's Mental Health Week. We thought about all the ways that we like to express ourselves and shared everything that makes us special and makes us, US! Take a look at how we have been expressing ourselves! 

This week, the children in Reception have been learning all about Chinese New Year. They learnt all about the famous race, used ordinal numbers to explain where each animal came in the race, made their own dragons and watched the dragon and lion dances. 

Children have once again enjoyed their phonics sessions and activities this week. They've been playing games online, writing in glitter and lots of us enjoyed writing in the snow! 

We discussed how Chinese writing looks different to how we learn to write at school and then we had a go at writing some numbers and words using Chinese characters. 

Children in Reception have been learning how to say 'Happy New Year' in Chinese. We are lucky to have families and children from so many different cultures and backgrounds. Here they are sharing some phrases in different languages. 

This half term we will be learning about different animals from all around the world. We will discuss what the animals look like, what they eat and where they live! 

       Read the story of Formidable Sid and pay close attention to the clues given. What animal do you think Sid is? 

Children in Reception have been learning how a vet helps us to care for our pets. They applied their knowledge to their role play activities and showed us just what to do if your pet needs help. 

Staff and children in Reception enjoyed bringing their pets to our live lesson today. We spoke about how we care for our pets, answered questions from our friends and spoke about any other animals we had met. Take a look at some of our pets and the animals we have met on days out.